If I were the Tackle Warehouse website guy, I'd substitute the names of all their Shimano reels with "Shimano Something or Other." Yeah, I'd be an unemployed hoot. 

 

Love your sunset pics, @TnRiver46. They make me pine to be there. 

 

1 hour ago, Pat Brown said:

 

 

I'd happily debate Alfred on this one any day ????

 

Funny! However, Ol' Al is right. 

1 minute ago, ol'crickety said:

If I were the Tackle Warehouse website guy, I'd substitute the names of all their Shimano reels with "Shimano Something or Other." Yeah, I'd be an unemployed hoot. 

 

Love your sunset pics, @TnRiver46. They make me pine to be there. 

In that case I’ll hit you with another picture from about a half hour before the sunset turned red 

5 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

In that case I’ll hit you with another picture from about a half hour before the sunset turned red 

 

You are a rich man. Of course, rich =/= $$$

Started my morning off right ~

#topwatertank

A-Jay

Four dinks on the red eye again this morning. Ready for a pattern change. It was HOT by 8am 

I caught a couple this morning before I had to go look at a job. Got them on a Texas rig. 

6 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Started my morning off right ~

#topwatertank

A-Jay

Nice fish A-jay!!! Congrats!!!

 I did the exact opposite!!! LOL. First I got my newly built mag blade chatterbait bit off, along with my 8" wire leader, then I lost a mid 30's that hit my .22 Short on the 8. It came off while I was trying to wrangle the net. That was my morning, had to bail early and go see the optometrist for some new specs.  

 The good news is that big chatterbait got SMOKED from behind, knocking several feet of slack in my line. I think it's gonna be a winner. I had a 4.8 Keitech Fat with the paddle cut off on it for a trailer. It's not big enough. I just ordered a 6" Do-It ripper mold. I'm a big fan of the 3.5 Ripper on my bass chatterbaits. Hopefully the 6 works as well on the muskie baits. It should be a winner on the center wire of my A-Rigs this fall for sure.

 Now that I know that big blade will work, I'm off to the garage to build some more. 

9 minutes ago, T-Billy said:

Nice fish A-jay!!! Congrats!!!

 I did the exact opposite!!! LOL. First I got my newly built mag blade chatterbait bit off, along with my 8" wire leader, then I lost a mid 30's that hit my .22 Short on the 8. It came off while I was trying to wrangle the net. That was my morning, had to bail early and go see the optometrist for some new specs.  

 The good news is that big chatterbait got SMOKED from behind, knocking several feet of slack in my line. I think it's gonna be a winner. I had a 4.8 Keitech Fat with the paddle cut off on it for a trailer. It's not big enough. I just ordered a 6" Do-It ripper mold. I'm a big fan of the 3.5 Ripper on my bass chatterbaits. Hopefully the 6 works as well on the muskie baits. It should be a winner on the center wire of my A-Rigs this fall for sure.

 Now that I know that big blade will work, I'm off to the garage to build some more. 

 

Lure Maker and Musky Slayer!*

 

*Speaking figuratively about slaying, of course. 

6 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Dinks, dinner, and a sunset show 

 

Slipped in a quick midnight sesh last night in between rainstorms. Wind was blasting in from the southwest, so it was impossible to see where the bait was staged. Cranked up my brakes, tried to find some eating over high grass, and nabbed two on the Livingston Bullnose wake before sideways rain blew me outta there at 1:30. On my way out I spotted two huge topwater killshots right where I was just working across the cove and almost turned back but my wife would kill me if I got electrocuted, so I had to bounce. The better fish fought like a champ for every inch, so it's all good after missing most of August.

 

1 hour ago, PhishLI said:

my wife would kill me if I got electrocuted, so I had to bounce.

 

Irony: She'd resuscitate you with electricity after you were killed by electricity to kill you again.*

 

I love seeing your brass bass, as they all look like they're brass to me in the LI night light. 

 

 

 

*My head hurts after writing that sentence. 

First cast of the day... jinx... it's a crappie.

 

First ever cast with a Karashi... jinx. Let the dinkfest begin. ?

 

Pops with a giant.

 

After all the dinks this smallie made me feel like I hooked into Walter from the golden pond.

 

Ended the day with 40 between 5-15" with a mode of 8-9" ?

9 hours ago, NorcalBassin said:

 

After all the dinks this smallie made me feel like I hooked into Walter from the golden pond.

 

What a funny ^line!^

 

Here's how I feel about Pop, who's always smiling:

 

 

 

I went this morning fairly early.  At first I was getting short hits on a bladed jig.  I took the trailer off(Manns classic spinnerbait trailer) and put a #6 treble on it for a trailer hook to see what was nibbling.  I caught a smallish crappie the next cast.  (Picture in other species thread after I post it).  I took the trailer hook off and went with a armor shad trailer hoping to keep the smaller fish from nipping.  I ended up catching 7 bass, 3 largemouth and 4 spots between 6am and 7am.  Pictured are the first and last.  None were big.   6 were on the bladed jig, one was on a texas rig.  I bragged on myself a while back for landing most of the fish I hook, so I lost two that were probably 4 poundish.....or the same fish twice.   First loss was on a devils horse.   I have a problem at times setting the hook too soon with topwater bites.   I saw this one coming on live sonar.  I tried to wait until I felt it but think I was early and barely had it in the edge of the mouth.  First jump and it was gone.  I followed up with a wacky rig to the same spot.  The fish grabbed it and ran right toward the boat.   I lost it on the second jump.  I don't think I got caught up enough for a good hookset.   That was around 7:15, and my last Bass action.   A little after 9 I caught a 41 1/2 inch long 37.03 pound Flathead Catfish.  (Picture in the other species thread).   

 

11 minutes ago, Woody B said:

At first I was getting short hits on a bladed jig.  I took the trailer off(Manns classic spinnerbait trailer) and put a #6 treble on it for a trailer hook to see what was nibbling.  I caught a smallish crappie the next cast.  (Picture in other species thread after I post it).  I took the trailer hook off and went with a armor shad trailer hoping to keep the smaller fish from nipping.  I ended up catching 7 bass, 3 largemouth and 4 spots between 6am and 7am.

 

Good fishermen experiment like this. 

 

11 minutes ago, Woody B said:

I saw this one coming on live sonar. 

 

My heart couldn't take ^this." Did the fish come from the depths, the side, or the rear?

 

11 minutes ago, Woody B said:

A little after 9 I caught a 41 1/2 inch long 37.03 pound Flathead Catfish.  (Picture in the other species thread).   

 

Whoa! How long did it take to land it?

 

Between my forgotten paddles fiasco and taking the kid fishing, I haven't caught a nice bass in more than a week, but I'm fishing a quality pond for two hours this evening. Fingers crossed!

23 minutes ago, Woody B said:

I went this morning fairly early.  At first I was getting short hits on a bladed jig.  I took the trailer off(Manns classic spinnerbait trailer) and put a #6 treble on it for a trailer hook to see what was nibbling.  I caught a smallish crappie the next cast.  (Picture in other species thread after I post it).  I took the trailer hook off and went with a armor shad trailer hoping to keep the smaller fish from nipping.  I ended up catching 7 bass, 3 largemouth and 4 spots between 6am and 7am.  Pictured are the first and last.  None were big.   6 were on the bladed jig, one was on a texas rig.  I bragged on myself a while back for landing most of the fish I hook, so I lost two that were probably 4 poundish.....or the same fish twice.   First loss was on a devils horse.   I have a problem at times setting the hook too soon with topwater bites.   I saw this one coming on live sonar.  I tried to wait until I felt it but think I was early and barely had it in the edge of the mouth.  First jump and it was gone.  I followed up with a wacky rig to the same spot.  The fish grabbed it and ran right toward the boat.   I lost it on the second jump.  I don't think I got caught up enough for a good hookset.   That was around 7:15, and my last Bass action.   A little after 9 I caught a 41 1/2 inch long 37.03 pound Flathead Catfish.  (Picture in the other species thread).   

 

Nice Bass. 

btw - I use that same strap light to do the dogs at night.

Surprisingly effective too.

Especially since I love gnats in my nasal passages.

OK, I don't actually love that.

A-Jay

11 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

My heart couldn't take ^this." Did the fish come from the depths, the side, or the rear?

 

I cast my Devils Horse over the submerged end of a lay down.  After the first twitch the bass came bolting up through the limbs.   

4 minutes ago, Woody B said:

 

I cast my Devils Horse over the submerged end of a lay down.  After the first twitch the bass came bolting up through the limbs.   

 

I love and hate laydowns. They hold bass, but it can be hard to wrench them out of wood.

A couple of friends and I went this morning for about 4 hours.  Ideal conditions with low clouds and a decent wind presented an opportunity to fish faster with aggressive, moving lures.  Normally I don't fish with 3 people bass fishing in my boat, but they both wanted to go with so I allowed it as long as we were careful about casting.  Turned out to be a great morning, 13 bass and 7 northern pike later, including several quality fish.  I piled into my fifth 20 incher of the season.  Even the pike were decent sized too.

Stepped out around 930p to see about annoying some bass. First cast mission accomplished and then 2.5 hours of head scratching. Weather finally starts cooling off next week it looks like, finally back in the 90s. Low quality pic is low quality but it was dark and the flash kills my night vision 

Today was really tough. Even though I had psyched myself up to catch a big sack today, I did know that the conditions could be good or bad, depending, and in this case, they were bad. Water temps 85-91, water level 17ft low, water clarity ultra clear with no rain for well over a month and a half. Often no wind to speak of, but there were little 10min bursts of a breeze. I tried deep and shallow with around 8-10 different techniques. None of my old stuff was working. But, I did at least manage some fish. 2 I photo'd and the 2 others were not picture worthy. 

 

Once upon a time, in Aberdeen Bait and Tackle in NC, I stumbled on a pack of green weenie zoom finesse worms. Once upon a time on Badin Lake, the shaky head wizard taught me to fish a shaky head. I'd like to thank those two things for happening, because otherwise, I'm pretty sure I would be sitting on no fish today. 

 

That's 8lb trilene xl on the reel by the way. I was fortunate to never break off or lose a fish.

Getting a little shaggy there @gimruis    Do I see hair overlapping your ears?  Is it touching your collar???   

@gimruis is allowed to be a bit shaggy. His get out of jail free card is that 20" bass. 

3 hours ago, Woody B said:

Getting a little shaggy there @gimruis    Do I see hair overlapping your ears?  Is it touching your collar???   

Haircut is scheduled tomorrow. It is getting a little frizzy.

First time out in 4/5 days after suffering with heat indexes over 100 every day, topped by a reading of 111 on Thu. Even just standing outside playing with graph settings was miserable. Snuck out before sundown and was able to catch 4 on Ned. Hoping to get out again in the next day or two as cooler air invades for a short spell.